Telling Pacific Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Telling Pacific Lives write by Vicki Luker. This book was released on 2008-06-01. Telling Pacific Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This volume of essays is an exploration of the way in which scholars from different disciplines, standpoints and theoretical orientations attempt to write life stories in the Pacific. It is the product of a conference organised by the Division of Pacific and Asian History at The Australian National University in December 2005. The aim of the conference was to explore ways in which Pacific lives are read and constructed through a variety of media: films, fiction, faction, history under four overarching themes. The first, Framing Lives, sought to explore various ways of constructing a life from a classic western perspective of birth, formation, experiences and death of an individual to other ways, for example, life as secondary to a longer genealogical entity, life as a symbol of collective experience, individual lives captured and fragmented in a mosaic of others, lives made meaningful by their implication in a particular historical or cultural web, the underlying values and world views that inform one or another approach to framing a life. The second theme, the Stuff of Life, looked at materials, methods and collaborative arrangements with which the biographer, autobiographer and recorder work, their objectives, constraints, inspirations, challenges and tricks. The third section, Story Lines, focused on formats and genres such as edited diaries, collections of writings, voice recordings, genres of biography autobiography, truth and fiction (verse, dance, novels) and the varieties and different advantages of narrative shapes that crystallise the telling of a life. The final section, Telling Lives/Changing Lives, focused on biography/autobiography and the consciousness of identity, history, purpose, lives as witness and windows, telling lives as change for those involved in the tale, the telling, the listening. The overall aim was to bring out both the generic or universal challenges of telling lives as well as to highlight the particular tendencies and trends in the Pacific. Yet these four themes, which seemed analytically promising at the outset, proved in practice difficult to disentangle from the presentations at the workshop"--Provided by publisher.
Political Life Writing in the Pacific
Political Life Writing in the Pacific - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Life Writing in the Pacific write by Jack Corbett. This book was released on 2015-07-29. Political Life Writing in the Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book aims to reflect on the experiential side of writing political lives in the Pacific region. The collection touches on aspects of the life writing art that are particularly pertinent to political figures: public perception and ideology; identifying important political successes and policy initiatives; grappling with issues like corruption and age-old political science questions about leadership and ‘dirty hands’. These are general themes but they take on a particular significance in the Pacific context and so the contributions explore these themes in relation to patterns of colonisation and the memory of independence; issues elliptically captured by terms like ‘culture’ and ‘tradition’; the nature of ‘self’ presented in Pacific life writing; and the tendency for many of these texts to be written by ‘outsiders’, or at least the increasingly contested nature of what that term means.
Pacific Lives, Pacific Places
Pacific Lives, Pacific Places - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pacific Lives, Pacific Places write by Pacific History Association. Conference. This book was released on 2001. Pacific Lives, Pacific Places available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the last fifty years Pacific history has become a vast and complex multi-disciplinary subject for analysis practiced by a great range of the professionally interested noting all changes.
Multivocal Archaeologies of the Pacific War, 1941–45
Multivocal Archaeologies of the Pacific War, 1941–45 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Multivocal Archaeologies of the Pacific War, 1941–45 write by Ben Raffield. This book was released on 2023-07-21. Multivocal Archaeologies of the Pacific War, 1941–45 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume draws together the ground-breaking work of researchers and archaeological practitioners, working in multiple countries, to explore and understand the material and cultural impacts of the Pacific War. The combat taking place in the Pacific region during the years 1941–45 was characterized by a brutality and violence unmatched in any other theatre of the Second World War. Described by indigenous Micronesians as a ‘typhoon,’ the war was an unstoppable force that rolled across the islanders’ homes, leaving only a trail of destruction in its wake, with physical, psychological, and cultural impacts that continue to resonate today. This difficult period is examined in a variety of ways through chapters that include targeted studies of archaeological sites, wider surveys of battlefield landscapes, and the ways in which we commemorate the experiences and legacies of both combatants and civilian populations. The translation of important research by Okinawan, Japanese, and Russian archaeologists brings into focus regions that have previously been neglected in Anglophone literature, and enriches this comprehensive exploration of the archaeology of the Pacific War. This book will be of interest to archaeological practitioners, students, and members of the general public working in conflict studies or with an interest in the material culture, history, and legacies of the Pacific War.
Pacific Worlds
Pacific Worlds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pacific Worlds write by Matt K. Matsuda. This book was released on 2012-01-19. Pacific Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essential single-volume history of the Pacific region and the global interactions which define it.
